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Kathryn Jacobson

Kathryn, Nate, and their three children moved from Utah to Virginia in 2016, seeking new work opportunities. Though their roots remain in the sandy rocks there, they fell in love with the lush valley and its generous people and settled into its giving soil.

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The Sounds of an Appalachian Neighborhood on Ice

A Peaceful Foreboding It crackles. Have you ever heard the sound of a wintry mix falling in the Appalachians? It sounds a bit like rain with its steady, calming rhythm, and a bit like hail, drumming t...

Kathryn Jacobson
January 27, 2026
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A Poem About Virginia: An Old and Ageless Beauty

VIRGINIA By Kathryn Jacobson She has an old type of beauty. I’m not quite sure why she feels that way; old. I suppose God put the dirt here at the same time he put the dirt everywhere else. It&#...

Kathryn Jacobson
January 20, 2026
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3A distant figure in the Ice
The Sounds of an Appalachian Neighborhood on Ice
January 27, 2026

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